The most psychologically interesting strain of the book is his violent antipathy to being a victim. That is hardly unusual among the American right, but it is an interesting and troubling position for a Catholic politician.
Maurice Mauve
@samhufton1.bsky.social
Had a blog. Sometimes still write. Do marketing for pubs. Did European Studies at Kings College London. Like cooking. Am Mauritian. Like Ukraine to win. Democracy in Europe. Up the spurs.
The new CEO of Bluesky remains in the world of yesterday
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d agoThe new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4
"surely we should be able to have a politically heterogenous platform with tight rules on hate speech etc" that's basically it right there - the right-wing now will actively reject "tight rules on hate speech". it's a deal breaker for them, across the vast majority of the political right.
Hello one and all, I have written something for the first time in roughly 7 years. It's about belonging, nationhood, language, passions, storytelling, dialectics and football (Yes I did write it before the World Cup please don't hold it against the essay) isoe-online.co.uk/2026/08/03/e...
Everything to play for and forever to play it in – Reviewing Home & Away By Knausgård & Ekelund
“This is the last great party! 2018, Russia, Putin. 2022, Qatar. And FIFA’s fascism will probably only worsen. This World Cup – right now – is the last great footballing par…
isoe-online.co.uk
Hello one and all, I have written something for the first time in roughly 7 years. It's about belonging, nationhood, language, passions, storytelling, dialectics and football (Yes I did write it before the World Cup please don't hold it against the essay) isoe-online.co.uk/2026/08/03/e...
Everything to play for and forever to play it in – Reviewing Home & Away By Knausgård & Ekelund
“This is the last great party! 2018, Russia, Putin. 2022, Qatar. And FIFA’s fascism will probably only worsen. This World Cup – right now – is the last great footballing par…
isoe-online.co.uk
Brexit, just one of the most unhinged things I have seen in my lifetime. Just an absolute xenophobic car crash from day one. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’
After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain
theguardian.com
Not a clever look for Burnham if he wants better EU relations. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’
After years of building lives in UK, potentially hundreds of thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain
theguardian.com
Europa erschrickt über das kurzfristige Eindringen von 60.000 Flüchtlingen auf EU-Boden mehr als über die verbreiteten Waldbrände, die zehntausenden Hitzetoten und die angebrochene Klimakatastrophe. Der extremen Rechten ist es gelungen, Europas Kopf und Herz schwer zu beschädgen.
We have an uncanny knack of never missing an opportunity to humiliate ourselves
Alberto Alemanno@alemanno.bsky.social · 5d agoThe European response to the #Ceuta crisis will go down in history as an own goal that emboldened Europe’s adversaries. Instead of showing solidarity, Italy & co sought to punish it. Now, with the vast majority of arrivals already returned, the failure wasn’t border control but European solidarity.
Rechenzentren sind das Rückgrat von KI und zugleich massiver Ressourcenfresser. Es geht um Strom, Wasser und Macht. Wie viel Zukunft wollen und sollen wir KI opfern? Bei @perspective-daily.bsky.social gibt es 1 Kurztext mit allen wichtigen Infos aus dem Podcast perspective-daily.de/article/5086...
Was hinter den grauen Betongebäuden steckt, die überall in Deutschland entstehen – und was sie dich kosten
Warum künstliche Intelligenz Strom, Wasser und politische Entscheidungen braucht.
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"Fifa’s stated annual revenue of $3.6bn therefore compares unfavourably with the NFL’s compared revenue of $21.2bn, Major League Baseball’s $13.1bn and the NBA’s $12.5bn." This assessment my JPMorgan just says it all doesn't it www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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The meltdown we are seeing from so many at the images from yesterday is really quite breathtaking
Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 5d agoThe images coming from Ceuta are unacceptable. We cannot allow anyone to come to our Union without abiding by our rules. Dangerous crossings must stop immediately. Smuggling networks must be dismantled. And returns must be swift, as our rules allow.
Am Ende wird uns die globale Erwärmung die Entscheidung und auch das Handeln abnehmen. Weil Nicht-Handeln zu diesem Zeitpunkt alternativlos sein wird. Waldbrände, Wassermangel, Hitzewellen, schmelzende Infrastruktur, fehlender Hitzeschutz belasten heute schon. Und das bei gerade mal ~1,5 °C.
Janoschki@janoschki.bsky.social · 2w agoIMO: EE-Ausbau weiter stark, Weltwirtschaft wächst aber auch. Emissionen bilden Plateau, sinken aber nicht 0. Solange emittiert, heizt System. Ab 2-3 °C leidet Wirtschaft massiv, dann Umschwenken: Change by Desaster statt Design. Dann Einpendeln bei 2,5-3 °C od. Selbstverstärkung d. Kaskadeneffekte.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who couldn't wait for the anti-pope storyline to come out of this
Jack Tindale@jacktindale.bsky.social · 6d agoAleksander Čeferin has been elected Leader of the Avignon FIFA and taken the regnal name Clement VII.
Aleksander Čeferin has been elected Leader of the Avignon FIFA and taken the regnal name Clement VII.
Andy Burnham, "To me, carers should be the best paid people in society, not the worst" "Many people from other countries have been caring for my dad" Andy Burnham praises migrants to the UK who care for our elderly, a stark contrast to Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer
Europe is burning, food insecurity is growing and Trump and Farage are still shouting about ‘Net Stupid Zero’ ✏️@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Alastair Campbell’s diary: The right wing case for climate crisis denial is going up in flames
Europe is burning, food insecurity is growing and Trump and Farage are still shouting about ‘Net Stupid Zero’
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⚫ Le DJ français Kavinsky a été retrouvé mort à son domicile du XVIIIe arrondissement de Paris mardi dans la soirée ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/QCL
I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
bbc.co.uk
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3w ago“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪
Awful, awful news.
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · last wk.I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thoughts with everyone just wanting to celebrate love and unity in Berlin x
in this week's newsletter! an essay that maybe won't be wholly popular with everyone, on feeling increasingly alienated from a world which seems to mostly fetishise "having a perfect body" and "eating interesting food": youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/hearts-sta...
Who are these weirdos? And why are the BBC interviewing them?
As a bit of retail policy, talking about buses is fine. Think that there's been a significant overcorrection in not talking enough about trains, though, or the real reason why bus services got worse over the course of the 20th century (the car).
Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 2w agoBuses are also more local transport. Place based policy is back. There used to be a think tank that wouldn’t shut up about buses.
We must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies.
Roberta Metsola@president.europarl.europa.eu · 2w agoFifteen years ago today, 77 lives were taken - most of them young - on an island that should have been a place of summer, friendship, and first ideas about the world they wanted to build. On that day, Norway grieved, and Europe grieved with it. Utøya. Oslo. We remember.
Thread on Burnham. He has drawn a historic line on 40 years of Thatcherism, New Labour efforts to humanise it and Brexit’s lung at ‘Thatcherism in one country’. Political centralisation and economic privatisation as he put it in a neat phrase. It means that